Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping the territory : introduction / Leslie Hill -- This must be the place : thoughts on place, placelessness and live art since the 1980s / Lois Keidan -- This secret location / Helen Cole -- It's very trippy : shock locutions and dislocation / Mark Waugh -- Out of the furnace and into the cyberplan / Martha Wilson -- (Dis)placing the senses : introduction / Leslie Hill -- An introduction to vertigo / Rob La Frenais -- Swimming in time : performing programmes, mutable movies - notes on a process in progress / Toni Dove -- The patina of placelessness / Emily Puthoff -- FutureHouse, blind city : a life / Johannes Birringer -- On location : introduction / Leslie Hill -- Through the wrong end of the telescope / Graeme Miller -- Walking in sin city / Michael Peterson -- Placed and displaced : trauma memorials / Laurie Beth Clark -- Where difference lies : performative metaphors of truth, deception and placelessness in the Cornish peninsula / Patrick Laviolette -- Border panic : introduction / Leslie Hill -- Lost in space? Global placelessness and the non-places of Alladeen / Jennifer Parker-Starbuck -- A place for protest : the billionaires for Bush interrupt the hegemonologue / L.M. Bogad -- Too close for comfort : one-to-one performance / Helen Paris -- Parallel power : Shakespeare, gunfire and silence / Paul Heritage -- Theatre in a crowded fire : introduction / Leslie Hill -- Starry night sky / Lin Hixson -- Live from paradise : a work in progress / Julian Maynard Smith -- Hidy-hole and inner sanctum / Andrew Kötting -- The ordering of the fantastic : architecture and place in the work of Lawrence Steger / Matthew Goulish.